Learning Assembly Language — A Helpful Guide [Part 1]

TechTeaching
7 min readAug 17, 2020

What is Assembly?

Assembly language is a programming language just like any other. Well nearly… every line in assembly language actually represents a single CPU instruction. This is different from a language like python where a single line of code could represent hundreds of CPU instructions.

As a result of this, we have a lot more control over what we can do, but, it is a lot, lot more complicated and time-consuming to create and debug programs.

Why Learn Assembly?

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